The Aquinas 1983-11-22

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Vol. 56, No. 10
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UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON
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Tuesday, Nov. 22 1983
met while he was vice
president of Sage Data,
Inc., Princeton, N.J. and
Cook was a teacher at
Princeton University.
The people selected for
the panel were chosen
because of their knowledge
of four areas: state and
local governments, labor
negotiations and
management, Corcione said.
He has had several
management positions,
designed pension programs
for such cities as
Bethlehem, Pa., and
negotiated labor contracts
for over 20 labor unions and
municipalities, he added.
Carcione is currently in
Washington, D.C. for the
final day of a two-day
preliminary meeting of the
committee.
the panel will be "to
observe the program, assess
its impact, r~commend
changes and assist in the
writing of the report, which
will be sent to Congress,"
he said. The entire study is
scheduled to last three
years, he' added.
Westat Corporation, an
independent, New Jerseybased
company, was asked
by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics to become
involved in the
implementation of the jobtraining
act, Corcione said.
It put together a program
of study and implementation
that will initially involve 20
states. Corcione was asked
to be the field staff
representative for
Pennsylvania by Robert
Cook, a Westat executive he
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Corcione to study federal jobs. program
. . BY TIM O'BRIEN "The program was passed
Aquinas Editor in Chief by Congress and represents
-', Evaluating a new federal a major change in the way
employment program and we're going to deal with
presenting a report on its unemployment," he
progress to t4e U.S. explained. "Most of the
CongI:ess will be the job of authority is transferred
School'of Management from the federal
professor Frank Corcione .government to the state.
and 19 other members of·a The governor of the state is
select government the key to the program."
committee. Corcione will , State governme~tsare
serve as the field staff charged with creating
. representative for the state "service delivery areas"
of Pennsylvania. where the program's funds
The panel is being set up are most needed.
to examine the Job Training Lackawanna County is one
Partnership Act~ which of many areas in
became law in October 1982 Pennsylvania currently
and aims to provide training operating under the
for youths, unskilled program, Corcione said,
workers, displaced workers because of the large number
C . . and other individuals who of displaced coal and steel
, Dr. Frank O!CIOne face serious barriers to " k
C · 'd wor ers.
o • employment, orClOne sm . His job as a member of Reno'vatzons underway
on Jefferson, Hall gym
BY NEAL THOMPSON
o Aquillas News Staff
Renovations began last week to
convert the Jefferson Hall gym into
facilities for the physical therapy
department. The department will
expand from its present location in
the basement of Jefferson into the
adjoining gym..
The project is scheduled for
completion by Jan. 30 and will cost
approximately $200,000, ,said Gary
Zarnpano, coordinator of facilitiE!s
planning and special projects,
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